IND vs SL: 5 Records that team India created against Sri Lanka after winning Test series 2-0

IND vs SL: 5 Records that team India created against Sri Lanka after winning Test series 2-0

A two test match series was played between India and Sri Lanka. The second test match between India and Sri Lanka was played from 12 to 14 March at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.

India won the Test match on the third day itself and with this, they have also won the series 2-0. During this, the players of the Indian cricket team have also set many records. The world record made by the Indian cricket team and players during the second test.

Second Test between India and Sri Lanka – In the second Test

with Sri Lanka, Team India, batting first, scored 252 runs in the first innings for the loss of 9 wickets. In response, Sri Lanka’s team was reduced to 109 runs. India took a lead of 143 runs in the first innings.

After this, India declared their innings by scoring 303 runs for the loss of nine wickets in the second innings. After this Sri Lanka’s team needed 447 runs to win.

But the team was all out for 208 runs in the second innings. Shreyas Iyer did an excellent job in batting for India in both innings.

Jasprit Bumrah did the best performance-

Jasprit Bumrah

bowled the best for India in the bowling, taking the maximum of 5 wickets for the Sri Lankan team. The team’s vice-captain Bumrah took 5 wickets for just 24 runs in 10 overs. R Ashwin and Mohammed Shami took two wickets each.

 Also, Axar Patel has taken a wicket. In the second innings, R Ashwin took 4 wickets for 55 runs in 20 overs. At the same time, Jasprit Bumrah took three, Axar Patel took two and Ravindra Jadeja took one, due to which India won the second Test by all-out Sri Lanka in both the innings.

Rishabh Pant made a record-

Rishabh Pant has also made a new record during the second Test. Rishabh Pant has become the first batsman to score the fastest fifty for India in Test cricket. Pant scored the fastest 50 runs in the second innings with the help of 7 fours and 2 sixes in 31 balls.

Earlier in Test cricket, in the year 1982 in Karachi, Kapil Dev had scored fifty in 30 balls against Pakistan. Pakistan’s batsman Misba-ul-Haq holds the record for the fastest half-century in Test cricket in the world.

Rishabh Pant has also become the first Indian wicketkeeper-batsman to win the ‘Player of the Series award in Test cricket.

Shreyas Iyer became the first Indian batsman to do so – 

Shreyas Iyer has scored more than 50 runs in both innings of the second Test against Sri Lanka. Shreyas Iyer scored 92 runs in 98 balls in the first innings and 67 runs in 87 balls in the second innings.

With this, he has become the first Indian batsman to score more than 50 runs in both the innings of a day-night test match.

Shreyas Iyer has become the fifth batsman in the world to score more than 50 runs in both the innings of a day-night Test match. In this, Darren Bravo of West Indies is at number one, who made this record against Pakistan in Dubai in 2016.

The record made by Ashwin in Test cricket –

R Ashwin has become the first bowler in the world to take 100 wickets in the World Test Championship. With this, R Ashwin has reached number 8 in the list of bowlers with the highest wicket-takers in Test cricket.

Earlier, Dale Steyn of South Africa was at number 8, who has now moved to number 9. Sri Lankan bowler Muttiah Muralitharan holds the record for taking 800 wickets in Test cricket.

At the same time, the record of taking 619 wickets in Test cricket for India is in the name of best bowler Anil Kumble and he is the fourth-highest wicket-taker in the world.